Men of War

Tom Stoddart

Men of War

2003

01/31/2023

Perspective 

I looked through Gary Winogrand, Joel Sternfeld, Martin Parr, and Tom Stoddart on street photography. As I looked I liked a few of them but only one street photograph stood out to me and that was Tom Stoddart with the compositional element of expression, texture, and how the light helps you feel the depths of his eyes. This photo can be viewed differently by the different viewers and what knowledge they have of the photo and the time it was taken in along with the environment. For myself, it's emotional, historical, and nostalgic. As a viewer this photo makes me feel inspired to make a change to keep the war/fighting at bay. It helps me see the humanity in this world along with the deepness in his eyes you can sense what he has been through and the things he has seen that can't be unseen and his story is worth being told. 

Photo's Power

Lewis Hine's

 These photos ended child labor in the US - YouTube

How I feel when I looked at Lewis Hine's photos well, I was hurt that these kids went through so much and acted more like an adult than adults now. This one photo truly captured the child's pain hidden deep within her eyes but she doesn't complain because she is selfless for her family. How I think people would react to Hine's photos today is depression knowing that they never had to experience this when growing up but maybe get a new perspective of what they now have and get to enjoy. Honestly, I really don't know exactly only because everything has changed and human's ways of thinking and reason have changed since these photos times. I do think if these photos have the same style but shed light on something communities care about then absolutly because never underestimate the power one photo can bring, I have seen one photo bring the strongest man in the room down on his knees but photos don't only bring negative emotions photos can bring a light of love to people who have felt darkness for so long. 

Compostion and Lighting

Mushroom

Edward Weston

Mushroom

1940

January 25, 2023

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The strengths of the composition and lighting of this Mushroom photo would have to be the intensity of the focus on the gills. While allowing the cap and the stem to blur in the background.  Not only does this shot seem close up but highly detailed. The lighting is set up so precisely to grab the effect Weston is obtaining. 

Instagram Street Photography

 Street Macadam

While looking through the different Instagram accounts I found a feed that struck me and hit deeper than the others. I know this was supposed to be 4 rows of the images in a screenshot but that's 12 photos in total and I thought I would pick out the ones that stood out to me and just make sure I have all 12 photos. I went with Street Macadam Instagram feed. 

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@street_macadam • Instagram photos and videos

What I like about this IG feed is the realness it has within the first 4 photos. There's just this undeniable blissfulness of life this photographer captures. It brings the real deepness of the small moments in life that you can't help but smile and wish we can go back in time and understand the simplicity life brought in every day. The other photos have so much going on and have so many different ways to look at them. What draws me into imagery is the texture and colors that are captured in a photo that portrays a story worth more than 1000 words could explain. I would love to emulate what I feel within a photo to help the viewer understand what happens so deep within that it can't possibly be explained in detail and all we can hope is the one photo we capture can deliver what words can't. 

Portrait from a Photographer

Iron White Man

 I looked through each photographer's Richard Avedon, Gertrude Kasabier, and Irving Penn portraits and studied the ones that stood stronger than the others and came down to one in particular. 

One of Gertrude Kasabier's portraits came off particularly strongly to me in a good way. 

Gertrude Kasabier

Iron White Man

October 11, 2017

January 19, 2023

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The reason I chose this portrait was for the story it could tell if it came alive and the wisdom he could share that is shown in his eyes of mystery and history. I thought it was a woman at first but the title says Iron White Man so I hope I am now appropriately assuming it's a man now. Not only could it tell such a deep story but how beautiful the culture she is capturing is in one signal portrait. Gertrude didn't only capture a Native American covered in colors of his and her people as I once heard "you should have seen it in color" I am now truly understanding the deepens of those words.